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What’s your favourite type/colour of Maine Coon and why? You have your most common Coons from brown classic tabby, silver tabby, ginger tabby, cream tabby and torte.
I think my favourite colour would have to be silver with white, then a pure white Coon then a tabby with white.
What are your thoughts?
My Beloved Samantha was a Blue Patched Tabby (Torbie) and the most beautiful cat I've ever known.
Everyone who ever met her did a double take and commented on what a beautiful cat she was.
But her great beauty was far surpassed by her cheerful joyous spirit.
Her Papa misses her every day, so the choice was easy.
I also just love the Party Colored Girls. Torties, Torbies and Calico, those that have passed through my life have had a certain style and zest for life, each one's markings are unique as their personalities.
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Originally Posted by cooncatbob
I love all my boys colours :smile:
First came Riley who is blue silver with white, then came Chester in a lovely warm brown tabby and white, then I got a bit adventurous and decided to have a go at showing, enter Alfie, solid white with green eyes (see my avatar!) and in June Oscar came home and he's probably the most "exotic" of the four as he is blue solid and high white with polydactyl front feet. I'm still waiting for my dream girl - a flashy tortie (lots of red) and high white :nod:
I expect any MCC owner to believe that their cat is the most beautiful and desirable.
I hope to some day soon own a Big Red Tabby Male, Samantha's father was a Red Mackerel Tabby and he was just a magnificent looking cat.
I am partial to classic brown tabbies with or without white. I've only come to love the brown classics because of our beloved dear Missy (RIP). She was like a little miniture brown grizzly bear.
My next favorite and hoping to add to our clan is a Red boy.
hi thanks for the reply. i must say i love your Alfie he's the type of white cat i would love to have. it must be a bummer getting rid of the white cat hairs from your cloths. i used to have a pure white moggie (snowy) and i used to have to wrap sticky tape around my hand and pat my cloths to get the hairs off lol. can i ask what weight is he?
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Originally Posted by Wendy1969
hiya, yeah im thinking in getting another coonie to add to the two i have got and i think i would want a brown tabby with white like your Tequila , i just love his tipped ears. i would love a pure white coonie but their hard to find.
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Originally Posted by LilyC
Personally I love Torties, I love the look of Silvers and Blues but Torties have that extra ...something???
Since I've been breeding I've discovered that the Red Tabbies seem to be by far the most sought after. Every one I've had has been the first to be snatched up.
Just today I had to tell someone that our latest Red boy has already found a home (and he's only 4 days old!!!)
I'm hoping one day I will have a big litter of nothing but Red Tabbies so i don't have to disappoint anyone :/
I love the look of the brown tabby. But I always try to get each new furbaby in a different color then the previous furbabies. I guess I'm just weird that way.
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Originally Posted by MickB
Interesting that where you are, the Red's go first. Cuz, my breeder only had Reds left. The brown tabbies were more popular. He was willing to give me a red boy at a discounted price since he had more of them than the browns.
Def love red tabbies - Sunshine the big fat ginger boy as I call him! But our girls are blue tortie tabby and white - and their coats are really eye-catching. Def something magical about a naughty tortie!
I'm going to have to say red for fear of being attacked by Mufasa lol! But I love most of them and *whispers* am particularly fond of the brown tabbies too!
Black smoke is number one for me... especially when they have bright yellow eyes like El Monto.
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Red classic tabbys are my favorite, when my mum offered to buy me Jimmy for my 21st he had to be a red classic tabby, had to search for him for a while but I refused every other colour lol
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One of my greatest regrets is that when I got Samantha the breeder had 3 half siblings (same Dad) that were 8 months old and were red and white tabby's.
She offered me a discount on one of them and I declined, I was a guerrilla cat owner, my apartments didn't allow pets and I felt 2 of the big furry monsters would give the show away.
Alfie is quite lean at the moment. He's probably about 6.5-7kgs. Hes got the vets next week for his boosters so they'll weigh him properly then. As far as cat hair on clothes - that was already a lost cause before we got Alfie. Everything I own is covered is a fine film of cat hairs of various colours. Its stuck to the car seats, its even migrated to my chair at work. They all know I'm a Mad Cat Lady so I dont really care :LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by davie boy 2000
I love any colour, but there is something about cats with white paws I find particularly attractive. As I don't have a full on red at the moment, I'm hoping my red silver girl will provide me with a lovely red classic girl in March. It is fully how colour tastes come and go. Our spring litters had a good variety of colours, but everyone seemed to want blue/silver. Our autumn litter was all blue and silver and everyone wanted red!
So it's not just cats who are fickle... people are too.:winkwink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Musicalife
Love the silvers (obviously, look at my 'Kota)! However, my dream MC would be a Smoke, Solid Blue or Black. I've always been partial to these colors. Being a lifetime cat owner, I've never been owned by a ginger cat -- sounds like I may be missing out on something.:drool1::winkwink:
I haven't got any favourite colours,reds are the ones I like the least followed by silver mackerel with white,throw in a tabby tortie,brown classic tabby plus a black with white & things get pretty boring & as for having a smoke well thats the pits especially a silver tortie.....
All lies luv the lot did have a blue {RIP}so don't think there are too many left but I never thought I would say that I would fall under the spell of a brown tabby let alone without white but a certain boy has changed my thoughts on that one...!
yeah i love your kota, your coon has a lovely tail. can i ask how old is your cats and what does he weigh?
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i just love the markings on my brown and white boy always loved tabbies . Never wanted a red but Eric was such a special baby and love him to bits now ...still want a tortie girl , but nust have white and not sure what colour of tortie yet ...will be fussy about the colour and markings if i ever get her
I've lived with three MCs
Bubba was a rescue and was a wonderful soul.
He was the one pawing at me thru the cage as I walked by...
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Rascal had a tough life before she wound up with me. Unfortunately she never learned about automobiles.
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MC Elvis
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It's odd, but brown tabby isn't really my first color preference.
It's been more of a matter of personalities.
I'm not sure, though, that even if I could change Elvis' color I would.
Dakota (we call him 'kota or Duke) is now 20 lbs/9kg and is 5.5 yrs old. He seems to be maturing more this year and filling out more. He dad, Zunicoon Hulk, is over 25 lbs/11.4kg. 'Kota was the most adorable kitten (aren't they all?!?!). He was all legs and ears, but he had the most pathetic tail for several years!Quote:
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These pics are when he was 12 wks old and 9 mo old. I know you will enjoy your babies as much as we do ours. They don't really get older, just bigger! :winkwink:
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Hiya thanks for the reply, yeah I’m hoping my coons tails will fluff out more when their older. They've not got the best of tails at the moment? But that’s them about 15 months old so they’ve got a few more years growth in them?
can I ask you what was the weight of your coons at 12 months old. I'm wondering because I’m trying to estimate my cats weight when they get older.
Thanks.
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Originally Posted by mc-becca
I love silvers and torties and probably most of all silver shadeds. However, my heart always melts for a tabby, not sure why, maybe it's because my first ever cat as a child was a tabby moggie. Also I absolutely adore the tabby markings on the face, especially the "spectacles" around the eyes!
I think that solid blues, blacks and smokes can look really impressive though, just like a wild cat.
The truth be told though, it's the individual cats personality that I fall for and so I guess I love all colours!
Luisa xx :winkwink:
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Maine Coons were almost non existent for sale (at least to my knowledge) here in Singapore (not even in petshops, no breeders; registered or back yard breeders) back in the late 80s and early 90s.
When I discovered my Rocco (brown tabby) from a registered MC breeder who owns a petshop (this breeder only owns 1 stud MC), I bought him without hesitation due to the limited availability of MC in Singapore. Until to date, there are only 2 registered MC breeders in Singapore....so, the choice of colors are very limited.
When I bought Merlin and Dyman from Poland, it was mainly because the breeder is willing to send them to Singapore, so I did not have a whole long list of breeders to choose from. It was either the breeders are not willing to send their kittens from Europe to Asia OR they are willing, only if 2 kittens are purchased at once for the price of EURO 5000 (this was 2 years ago EURO exchange rate was at it's highest peak, excluding airfreight and quarantine charges). If none of the above was an issue, my dream color would definitely be a Blue Smoke (preferably with Mackeral masking), a Solid Blue and finally a Black Smoke.
I did come across a Solid Blue male kitten at a petshop (claims to be imported from Perth, Australia but without papers/pedigree) in August 2010 for the price of SGD $3200 (around EURO 1950).
Buying a pet MC kitten (neutered) from a local registered breeder is between SGD $2000 - $2500.
You guys in Europe and USA are so very lucky when it comes to choices of breeders and colors.
Cheers!
